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(No Model.)

O X I DE m HH I m m mm M WM? B 210.420.4136. Patented Feb. 4, 1890.

UNITED STATES I PATENT EEICE.

EDIVARD OARNEY AND JOHN H. DIXON, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA; SAIDDIXON ASSIGNOR TO SAID OARNEY.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,436, dated February4, 1890.

Application filed November 1, 1888- Serial No. 289,734. (No model.)

' invention is to arrange a device by which a number or symbol may beimprinted upon the reverse side of the endless web of paper at regularintervals without interfering with or in any way affecting the ordinaryprinting mechanism of the'machine.

It consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinationof parts hereinafter more particularly described, and then definitelypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aperspective view of ourimproved printing attachment, sufficient of the printingmachine beingshown to indicate its application. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thesaid mechanism on a reduced scale. Fig. 3 is 'a view of a sheet of paperhaving a portion of it turned over to show the indicating number orsymbol printed on its reverse side.

Black-leaf check-books now very extensively used in stores or shops areemployed for giving each purchaser a memorandum of his or her purchaseand to keep a duplicate of the said memorandum to be filed in thecounting-house, and it is important that easy means should be devisedfor identifying the salesman writing the said memorandum. With that viewit is customary to have a letter or symbol on the book by which thesalesman may be known. The sheets forming is transferred onto theportion marked B; and the object of our invention is to devise simplemechanism by which the number or symbol may be printed so as to appearon the top surface of the half B when folded below the half A, and withthat view it is necessary to provide mechanism by which the said numberor symbol may be printed 011 the side of the sheet opposite to that onwhich the bill-head is printed. As our invention only relates to thisparticular printing attachment, it is not necessary to show describe thewhole machine. It will suffice to say that the shafts a and b are causedto rock, so as to bring the ends of the arms 0 and D together at thesame time that the bill-head is being printed on the sheet. The outerend of the arm 0 acts as a platen, and is located above the sheet ofpaper being printed, while the outer end of the arm D has a type-box Eplaced on it to receive the number or symbol. The arm F is fixed to theshaft 12, and is connected by the rod Gto a vertical bifurcated armI-I,which is pivoted at d on the bracket I. The upper bifurcated end ofthe arm H has slots e made in it to receive the journals of the rollerJ, which journals extend over and rest upon the track K,

attached to or forming part of the bracket '1, as indicated.

L represents the ink-rollers which revolve while the machine is inmotion.

lWI is an apron extending over the ink-rollers L and suificiently beyondthem to cover the roller J when it is held against the rollers L.

N is a spiral spring arranged, as shown, to elastically hold the rollerJ on the track K and against the type in the type-box E when the saidroller is carried over the surface.

0 is also a spiral spring, connected at one end to the bracket I and atthe other end to the bifurcated arm H, the said spring N bein g designedto pull the bifurcated arm Htoward the ink-rollers L when not otherwiseacted upon. The web of paper being printed passes between the arms 0 andD, and during the period that the web of paper remains stationary tohave the bill head or other printed matter printed on its top surfacethe outer ends of the arms 0 and D move toward each other until the typestrikes the platen on the arm O, thus printing on the bottom surface ofthe paper the number of symbol desired. The moment that this isaccomplished the ends of the arms C and D separate, the shaft brockingso as to carry the arm D down, and as the arm F is attached to the sameshaft it moves in the direction indicated by arrow and draws thebifurcated arm H toward it, thus carrying the roller J over the surfaceof the type-box E, and thereby conveying the ink from the roller L ontothe type in the box E. Vhen the arms move in the reverse direction, soas to once more print upon the bottom surface of the paper, the movementof the arm F permits the bifurcated arm H to be drawn back by its spring0 until the roller J comes in contact with the revolving ink-rollers L.The slot f in the rod G permits the arm F to move a little distancebefore it again draws the bifurcated arm H toward it.

From this description it will be seen thatthe mechanism we havedescribed is extremely simple and effectually accomplishes its object.

WVhat we claim as our invention is 1. In a printing-press, a type orembossing die supplementary to the ordinary printing mechanism andcarried by an oscillating shaft and arranged upon the opposite side ofthe paper from that being printed by said ordi nary printing mechanism,and a reciprocating inking device moving over said die, substantially asshown and described.

2. The combination of the arms C D, supplementary to the ordinaryprinting mechanism and arranged upon opposite sides of the path of thepaper and carried by rocking shafts, the type-holder carried by the freeend of one of said arms, and the supplemental inking device actuated byconnection with one of said arms, substantially as shown and described.

3. The supplemental printing apparatus, consisting of the arms D and Cand type-box E, carried on the arm D,which is fixed to the rocking shaft1), having an arm F connected to it, in combination with the pivoted armII, connected to the arm F by the rod Gand carrying an inking-roller J,the whole being arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposespecified.

4. The supplemental printing apparatus, consisting of the arms D and Cand pivoted arm H, the spring N, arranged to elastically hold the rollerJ, and the spring 0, arranged to elastically hold the pivoted arm II, incombination with the rod G, arranged to connect the pivoted arm H to therocking arm F, a longitudinal slot being made in the said rod, so

that the arm F may move a given distance without rocking the arm H,substantially as and for the purpose specified. Toronto, October 22,1888.

EDWARD CARNEY. JOHN H. DIXON. In presence of- CHARLES C. BALDWIN, W. G.FICBIILLAN.

